That Day, on the Beach
Schedule
Fri May 03 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley, CA
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Edward Yang returns with That Day, on the Beach, a film of epic scope that had an enormous impact in Taiwan. Its narrative scale, multiple intersecting stories, and self-reflexive mode marked the film as something entirely new for Chinese cinema. A focus on the emotional lives of two women, and their implicit rejection of patriarchal dominance, was considered taboo-breaking. In the framing story, Tan, a concert pianist living abroad, is contacted in Vienna by her old friend Lin (the superb Sylvia Chang), now a successful businesswoman, and the two get together to talk over old times. Seamless flashbacks reveal the histories of both friends. . . . Identity and values are the underlying themes, shifting in time as experience molds each woman in her journey of self-discovery. Cinematography by Christopher Doyle gives the film a dreamy beauty.
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Where is it happening?
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St,Berkeley,CA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
